Author and science reporter M. Mitchell Waldrop will speak at the
School of Information, sharing his views of what it's like to
research and write a science news story.

The public presentation, "The Web of Knowledge," will be from
noon­1 p.m. Mon. (April 15) in Room 409, West Hall.

Waldrop will talk about the nature of knowledge creation, and the
implications it might have for the organization of and the services
provided by digital libraries.

Waldrop earned a Ph.D. in elementary particle physics at the
University of Wisconsin in 1975, and a master's in journalism at
Wisconsin in 1977. From 1977­80 he was a writer and West Coast
bureau chief for Chemical and Engineering News. From
1980­91 he served as a senior writer at Science
magazine, where he covered physics, space, astronomy, computer
science, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, psychology and
neuroscience. He is the author of Man-Made Minds (1987), a
book about artificial intelligence; and Complexity (1992), a
book about the Santa Fe Institute and the new sciences of complexity.
He is currently at work on a new book about computers.